A History of Sanskrit Literature c17.s1.66
A History of Sanskrit Literature c17.s1.66
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c17.s1.66
The anthologies, which are our sources of so many lyric stanzas, are equally rich in gnomic matter, sometimes of great beauty, and there are a number of brief poems which may best be reckoned as gnomic. The most famous is the *Cātakāṣṭaka*⁵ of uncertain date; the bird will drink only the water of the clouds, and thus is a symbol of *hauteur*:
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- Cātakāṣṭaka — Sanskrit